LACEBARK— LAKCH 199 



Lacebark. Under this name and the Maori name " Powhiwhi " 

 are confused the two Malvaceous trees Eoheria populnea A. Cunn. 

 and Plagidnthus hetuUnus A. Cmm., both confined to New Zealand. 

 The former is brown, coarse-grained, soft, and brittle. W 42. 

 It is used for furniture. The latter is lighter in colour and weight 

 (W 36-5), and finer in grain. 



Lacewood. See Plane. 



Ladle-wood {Hartogia capensis L. : Order Gelastrinece). Cape 

 Colony. Resembling Mahogany, hard. Suitable for turnery or 

 cabinet-work. 



Lancewood in Honduras, etc. [Guatteria virgdta Dun : Order 

 Anondcece), " Yaya." Yellow, light, elastic, hard, fine-grained. 

 W 52 — 63. Used for shafts, fishing-rods, bows and arrows, and 

 imported in spars fetching about 7s. each. In Guiana the allied 

 or identical " Yariyari " [Duguetia guitar ensis Benth.) is exported 

 tmder the same name. Diffuse-porous, with minute pores and 

 fine rays. The ladder-like cross-bars of soft tissue between the 

 rays, which are characteristic of the Order Anonacece, are in this 

 species white and finer than in some others. [See also Myrtle, 

 Scrub, and Shad-bush.] In Tasmania the name is applied to 

 Eriostemon sqmmeus (Order Eutdoeoe), Height 20 ft. ; diam. 1 ft. 

 S.G. 801. W 50. A scarce, yellow wood, used for shafts and tool- 

 handles. 



Lancewood, Red. See BuIIetwood. 



Lapacho {Tabebuia flavescens Benth. and Hook. fil. : Order 

 Bignonidcece). Bolivia and JSTorthern Argentina. Abundant, 

 averaging 20 ft. high, and reaching 3 ft. in diam. S.G. 1*1. 

 Greenish-brown, closely resembhng Greenheart, heavy, tough, 

 durable. Used for hydraulic work and sleepers in Bolivia, and 

 for beams, spokes, telegraph-arms, and " varillas," or fence-droppers, 

 in Argentina. 



Larch {Ldrix europdea DC. : Order Ahietinece) , Alps of Central 

 Europe, and represented by a variety in Siberia. French "" Meleze." 

 Oerm. ''Larche." Ital, " Larice." Height 80—100 or 120 ft.; 

 diam. 2 — 4 ft. at base. S.G. 809 — 519. W over 68, when green 

 32—38. E 400—600 tons, e' 1-45. p' -78. / -43. ft 4—5-5. c 4,203. 

 c' -555. fc 2-5. v' -783. fs -75. Yellowish - white, generally 

 straight and even, but sometimes rather coarse in grain, soft, 

 tough, strong, very easily split and very durable, being rich in 

 tannic and phenolic antiseptic substances, shrinking excessively 

 and warping in seasoning, but lustrous and working up tolerably 

 well. In its native cold uplands, though there may be an inch of 

 yellowish-white sapwood, the heart is reddish-brown and harder. 

 The pith is small ; the pith-rays with trachexds with bordered pits 



